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We see ourselves as able to control our own destiny, able to discern for ourselves what is right and wrong , and we see God as obligated to arrange things for our benefit, especially if we live a good enough life according to our own chosen standards.

Keller, Timothy (2013-10-01). Walking with God through Pain and Suffering (p. 57). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition.

But an important point is that, once again as with “scientific” proofs of atheism, it is not the cast-iron intellectual reasoning which convinces, but the relief of revolt. Whether one wants to take refuge in this will depend, first, on how much one has already felt the inner point of our being nevertheless in the love of God, that God suffered with us. It is easier if one hasn’t, and even easier if one’s sense of the love of God was of a protecting father who could easily prevent this (a sense strengthened by the anthropocentric shift). Then the painful paradox is at its worst, and it can become unbearable to go on holding on to this, and one flips over. Which means that, parallel to the case of becoming atheist through “science”, the more childish one’s faith, the easier the flip-over.

Charles Taylor. A Secular Age (pp. 306-307). Kindle Edition. Continue reading →

The devil was disturbed and feared most that after he had filled the world with sins, there would now come someone to take away the sins of the world.

Cromatius